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Category: Grandmother’s Memoirs

One Voice of the Oklahoma Prairie, Conclusion

Posted on January 25, 2011July 14, 2022 by Red Dirt Kelly

Back then one didn’t have to take a driving test to get a driver’s license, all a person did was apply and pay 50 cents to obtain one. I didn’t do that, so in 1949 I had to take a test to get a license. This was after Quentin & I bought a new 1949 Ford. Were we ever proud of that new car!

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One Voice of the Oklahoma Prairie, Cont. (4)

Posted on January 18, 2011February 3, 2011 by Red Dirt Kelly

I remember one time we thought she was lost when she was about three years old. We hunted and called couldn’t find her. I finally went into the garage – there she was playing in the corn feed!

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One Voice of the Oklahoma Prairie, Cont. (3)

Posted on January 10, 2011February 3, 2011 by Red Dirt Kelly

I would take the train from Tuttle to Oklahoma City, then ride the interurban to within a few blocks of Dr. Cooper’s. When I’d hear the train blow the whistle down the track [when in Tuttle] I’d start to cry because I was already getting homesick.

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One Voice of the Oklahoma Prairie, Cont.

Posted on January 4, 2011June 23, 2011 by Red Dirt Kelly

When coming home we had to go past an opera house. We were told a little man lived under it; we were always frightened to go by. We watched the building closely!

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One Voice of the Oklahoma Prairie

Posted on December 27, 2010June 23, 2011 by Red Dirt Kelly

Aunt Edna could make the best ice cream and fried chicken; they even had water in the house! It was rainwater from a cistern; they had a pitcher pump on the cabinet by the sink.

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Simple Sabbath: My Grandmother’s Memoirs

Posted on November 13, 2010January 20, 2011 by Red Dirt Kelly

I know that adrenaline helps embed memories, and from reading through these pages I can see how and why she might have recalled and written the stories she did.

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